It is once we become a space faring civilization. For the next couple million years at least. Well, not infinite, but certainly exponential.

"Overpopulation" is a theory that was floated about for a little bit in the middle of the 20th century. It was quickly disproven on all grounds, but it's a convenient oversimplification so it held on anyway.

There's enough food and water and housing for everyone out there. We just can't figure out how to assign our resources fairly and without enormous amounts of waste.

Fertility is fine, contraceptives are working, ability to provide for a family is goooonnnneee.

Yeah I hate it when they use the wrong word probably for clicks or some bs.

Natality sells less I guess.

Well, generally yes, though we do see a higher percentage of men with reduced sperm count, which is ripe for conspiracy.

In reality, our sedentary, obese, non smoking lives result in less male fertility.

The population has more than doubled since I was born and the quality of life for an average person definitely seems lower. Plus everything is so crowded, all the time. It doesn't feel good. Also, companies don't even need to make their products good because there are billions of people who will buy them anyways.

Or developing countries with high birth rates...

Because SK has the lowest birthrate in the world right now.

Best of we seriously decrease the global population before encouraging people to have children.

Maybe make living not impossibly expensive. Forget the kids part. I can't even afford to live as it is.

There is maybe one country in the entire world where births are going up. The gist of your argument is correct, but it's not "births going up" but "the birth rate is still higher than in rich countries, even though it's been going down for a while". The general pattern that all countries go through is from high birth rate and high death rate to low birth rate and low death rate. It's just that death rate goes down way faster, because it's mostly dependent on technology, and birth rate going down requires significant behavioural changes. The population explosion in poorer countries is because death rates have gone down way faster (lots of change arrivibg suddenly) than they did in the rich countries (where thus all happened long ago, as the technology was invented). Look up population transition if you want to know more.

This is basically it. This has nothing to do with an economic model, it has to do with education and industrialization. There are countries out there paying people to have kids, and it's not really enticing people to have them, because people want to travel and enjoy their lives.

As of today all continents, but Africa, have a below replacement fertility rate. Current forecasts are Asia and Latin America peaking between 2055-2060, Europes population falling even earlier and North Americas population growing very slowly. Peak global population is supposed to be around 2090. Although there is quite a bit of evidence of this happening earlier, as population growth in Africa seems to fall much quicker then expected and countries like China are shrinking faster then expected too.

The Great Leap Forward

Fertility rates don't actually mean much about the ability to have children, rather it's about the choice to do so.